Lesson 1 Vocabulary 1. Manhood:the state of being human 2. White lie:harmless or trivial lie ，espone told in order to avoid hurting sb3. black sheep： person regarded as a disgrace or a failure by other members of his family or group 4. To upset: to defeat 5. Affirmation:stating sthas truth firmly and forcefully 6. To strain: to make the greatest possible effort 7. Off base: mistaken 8. (a) want (of) : lack of 9. Ringing cry: rallying call Paragraph 1. The job of arousing manhood within a people that have been taught for so many centuries that they are nobody is not easy. It is no easy job to educate a people who have been told over centuries that they were inferior and of no importance to see that they are humans, the same as any other people. 2. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery. If you break the mental shackles imposed on you by white supremacists, if you really respect yourself, thinking that you are a Man, equal to anyone else, you will be able to take part in the struggle against racial discrimination. 3. The Negro will only be free when he reaches down to the inner depths of his own being and signs with the pen and ink of assertive manhood his own emancipation proclamation. The liberation of mind can only be achieved by the Negro himself/herself. Only when a negro is fully convinced that he/she is a Man/Woman and is not inferior to anyone else, can he/she throw off the manacles of self-abnegation and become free. 4. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love. Power in its best form of function is the carrying out of the demands of justice with love and justice in the best form of function is the overcoming of everything standing in the way of love with power. 5. At that time economic status was considered the measure of the individual s ability and talents. At that time, the way to evaluate how capable and resourceful a person was to see how much money he had made (or how wealthy he was). 6. the absence of worldly goods indicated a want of industrious habits and moral fiber.A person was poor because he was lazy and not hard-working and lacked a sense of right and wrong. 7. It is not the work of slaves driven to their tasks either by the task, by the taskmaster, or by animal necessity. This kind of work cannot be done by slaves who work because the work has to be done, because 精选学习资料 - - - - - - - - - 名师归纳总结 - - - - - - -第 1 页，共 16 页they are forced to work by slave-drivers or because they need to work in order to be fed and clothed. 8. when the unjust measurement of human worth on the scale of dollars is eliminated. when the unfair practice of judhing human value by the amount of money a person has irs done away with. 9. He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that unlocks the door to the meaning of ultimate reality. Those who harbor hate in their hearts cannot grasp the teachings of God. Only those who have love can enjoy the ultimate happiness in Heaven. 10. Let us be dissatisfied until America will no longer have a high blood pressure of creeds and an anemia of deeds. Let us be dissatisfied until America no longer only talk about racial equality but is unwilling or reluctant to take action to end such evil practice as racial discrimination. Translation 1. A white lie is better than a black lie. 一个无关紧要的谎言总比一个恶意的谎言要好。2. To upset this cultural homicide,the Negro must rise up with an affirmation of his own Olympian manhood. 为了挫败各种蓄意培植的低人一等的心态，黑人必须直起腰来宣布自己高贵的人格。3. . with a spirit staining toward true self-esteem, the Negro must boldly throw off the manacles of self-abnegation. 黑人必须以一种竭尽全力自尊自重的精神，大胆抛弃自我克制的枷锁。4. What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. 必须懂得没有爱的权力是毫无节制、易被滥用的， 而没有权力的爱则是多愁善感、脆弱无力的。5. It is precisely this collision of immoral power with powerless morality which constitutes the major crisis of our times. 正是这种邪恶的权力和没有权势的道义的冲突构成了我们时代的主要危机。6. Now early in this century this proposal would have been greeted with ridicule and denunciation, as destructive of initiative and responsibility. 在本世纪之初，这种建议会受到嘲笑和谴责，认为它对主动性和责任感起负面作用7. The fact is that the work which improves the condition of mankind, the work which extends knowledge and increases power and enriches literature and elevates thought, is not done to secure a living. 事实上，人们从事改善人类处境的工作，从事传播知识、 增强实力、丰富文学财富以及升华思想的工作并不是为了谋生。8. . it can spend billions of dollars to put Gods children on their own two feet right here on earth. .它能够花费几十亿美元帮助上帝的孩子自立于这个世界。9. Furthermore, few if any violent revolutions have been successful unless the violent minority had the sympathy and support of the nonresistant majority. 除非主张暴力的少数人得到大多数人的同情与支持，不和他们对抗， 否则， 暴力革命很少或者说几乎没有成功的。精选学习资料 - - - - - - - - - 名师归纳总结 - - - - - - -第 2 页，共 16 页10. Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice. 我们要懂得道义的苍穹长又长，但它终将落向正义。让这一信念成为我们的战斗口号。它将给我们勇气以面对无法预见的未来，它将给我们疲惫的双脚以新的力量，向着自由大城大踏步继续我们的征程。当绝望的阴云密布，我们的日子变得阴郁无望时，当我们的夜晚变得比1000 个深夜还黑暗时，让我们记住宇宙之间有一种创造力， 能把黑暗的昨天变成光辉灿烂的明天。让我们铭记道德的苍穹长又长，但它终将落向正义。Lesson two Vocabulary 1.ballerina: a woman ballet dancer 2.dial: control panel/buttons on the TV set 3.to entrance: to be interested in 4.to mwamweize: to fascinate 5. To keep time: to use the right rhythm and speed 6. Reverie: imagination 7.debut: a first show in public 8.to twirl: to turn round and round 9.to prance: to move with high steps 10. Jumble: untidy mixture 11. Repeat: sign at the end of line in music indicating a parts to be repeated 12. To anchor: to fasten, can not move 13.fiasco: complete failure 14.recital: performance 15.tuner: the man who adjusts the strings of a musical instrument 16.moth-proof: treated chemically so as to resist the attacks from moths Paragraph 1. I pictured this prodigy part of me as many different images, trying each one on for size. I imagined myself being different types of prodigy, trying to find out which type would best suit me. 2. I had new thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thoughts filled with lots of won ts. Some new thoughts came to my mind, thoughts that I deliberately wanted to be disobedient, or to be more exact, thoughts that I would say lots of “ I won t ” to my mother. 3. The girl had a sauciness of a Shirley Temple. The girl was somewhat like Shirley Temple, a bit rude, but in an amusing way. 4. It felt like worms and toads and slimy things crawling out of my chest, but it also felt good, as if this awful side of me had surfaced, at last. While saying these, I was scared as if some very unpleasant, horrible things had got out of my chest; but at the same time, I felt a bit delighted for I was finally able to make this awful part of me known to my mother. 精选学习资料 - - - - - - - - - 名师归纳总结 - - - - - - -第 3 页，共 16 页5. And I could sense her anger rising to its breaking point, I wanted to see it spill over. And I could feel that her anger was coming to the point where her endurance and self-control would collapse, but I wanted to see what exactly she would do when that happened. 6. The lid to the piano was closed, shutting out the dust, my misery, and her dreams. When the lid to the piano was closed, it not only shut out the dust but also put an end to my misery and my mother s dreams as well. Translation: A. Phrases 1. with almost no money down (Para. 1) 几乎不用首付现款2. the raised hopes and failed expectations (Para. 18) 过高的希望和达不到的期盼3. shorting out (Para. 21) 短路4. the showpiece of our living room (Para. 47) 我家起居室的唯一摆设（陈列品）5. stiff-lipped smile (Para. 51) 不自然的微笑6. frighteningly strong (Para. 70) 力气大得吓人7. follow their own mind (Para. 72) 自行其事B. Sentences 1. Instead of getting big fat curls, I emerged with an uneven mass of crinkly black fuzz.(Para. 6) 我的头发没有做出我要的大卷花，而是给我弄成一头乱蓬蓬的黑色小卷毛。2. She checked to see if that was possibly one way to pronounce Helsinki before showing me the answer. (Para. 15) 在她告诉我答案前，她对了对手中的杂志，看看赫尔辛基是否能这样发音。3. She seemed entranced by the music, a little frenzied piano piece with this mesmerizing quality, sort of quick passages and then teasing lilting ones before it returned to the quick playful parts. (Para. 22) 她似乎被这音乐吸引住了。这钢琴曲不长，但有点狂乱，有着迷人的特点，乐曲一开始是快节奏的接着是欢快跳动的节拍，然后又回到嬉戏的部分。4. If she had as much talent as she has temper, she would be famous now. (Para. 33) 如果她的才气和脾气一样大的话，她早就出名了。5. The part I liked to practice best was the fancy curtsy: right foot out, touch the rose on the carpet with a pointed foot, sweep to the side, left leg bends, look up and smile.(Para. 49) 我最喜欢练习的部分是花哨的谢幕行礼动作：先出右脚，脚尖点在地毯上的玫瑰图案上，身子侧摆，左腿弯曲，抬头，微笑。6. A chill started at the top of my head and began to trickle down. Yet I couldn t stop playing, as though my hands were bewitched. I kept thinking my fingers would adjust themselves back, like a train switching to the right track. (Para. 52) 一股凉气从头顶开始，然后一点点传到全身。但我却不能停止演奏，双手好像着了魔似的。我不停地想，我的手指会调整好，就像火车会被扳到正确的轨道上。7. . and her face went blank, her mouth closed, her arms went slack, and she backed out of the room, stunned, as if she were blowing away like a small brown leaf, thin, brittle, lifeless. (Para. 76) 她的脸部失去了表情，嘴巴紧闭，双臂无力地垂下。她退出了房间，神色惊异，好像一小片枯黄的树叶被风吹走那样单薄、脆弱、毫无生气。8. And for the first time, or so it seemed, I noticed the piece on the right-hand side. It was called Perfectly Contented. I tried to play this one as well. It had a lighter melody but the same flowing 精选学习资料 - - - - - - - - - 名师归纳总结 - - - - - - -第 4 页，共 16 页rhythm and turned out to be quite easy. Pleading Child was shorter but slower; Perfectly Contented was longer, but faster. And after I played them both a few times, I realized they were two halves of the same song. (Para. 93) 我第一次，或好像感觉是第一次，注意到右边的乐曲。它的名称是“ 心满意足 ” 。我也试着弹这首曲子。 它的曲调比较轻松，但节奏同样流畅，不是很难。 “ 祈 求的孩子 ” 较短、较慢，而“ 心满意足 ” 更长、更快一些。在我弹了几遍后，我意识到，原来这两个曲子是同一首歌的 两个组成部分。Lesson three Vocabulary 1. in the throes of: in the act of struggling with 2. Dynamic: a force producing motion or change 3. Agenda: program of things to be done 4. (be) Shot through: have a lot of , as if full of holes after a shotgun blast 5. Critical mass : a large number of young people who are decisive 6. To hang out: to spend much of ones time ;frequent 7. To take (sb) in hand: to control someone, as to show him how to behave or act 8. Pocket: an isolated area of a specified type 9. To catch: to become popular 10. Plunging: extending far down in a revealing way Paraphrase 1. Yet globalization “ is a reality, not a choice ” . (Para. 2) However, as one report said, globalization “ is now an ordinary fact of life, not something one can choose to have or not.”2. Popular factions sprout to exploit nationalist anxieties. (Para. 5) Political groups favored by the general public have appeared in large numbers to take advantage of existing worries and uneasiness among the people about foreign “ cultural assault.”3. where xenophobia and economic ambition have often struggled for the upper hand. (Para. 5) .where the two trends the dislike and fear of things foreign and the desire to build China into one of a powerful, industrialized economy have often contended with each other for dominance. 4. Those people out there should continue to live in a museum while we will have showers hat work. (Para. 6) Those people in countries like China should continue to live a backward life while we ourselves will enjoy a comfortable life with all modern facilities. 5. Westernization is a phenomenon shot through with inconsistencies and populated by very strange bedfellows. (Para. 7) Westernization is a concept full of self-contradictions and held by people of very different backgrounds and views. 6. You don t have to be cool to do it; you just have to have the eye. (Para. 10) 精选学习资料 - - - - - - - - - 名师归纳总结 - - - - - - -第 5 页，共 16 页You don t have to look fashionable or attractive in order to find out what will be the future trend; you only need to be observant and able to make judgments about it. 7. Hewas up in the cybersphere far above the level of time zones. (Para. 19) He was playing the game on the Internet with people living in different parts of the world, an activity that goes far beyond the limit of time zones. 8. In the first two weeks of business the Gucci Store took in a surprising $100,000. (Para. 22) In the first two weeks after starting business in Shanghai, the Gucci Store made as much as $100,000, a surprisingly large amount of money. 9. Early on I realized that I was going to need some type of compass to guide me through the wilds of global culture. (Para. 29) Early before that / From the very beginning I realized I was going to need some guidance that would lead me through the rich and wide variety of global cultures. 10. The penitence may have been Jewish, but the aspiration was universal. (Para. 39) The way of expressing / showing repentance may have been characteristic of the Jews, but the desire for forgiveness from God was common to people of all cultures. Translation Today we are in the throes of a worldwide reformation of cultures, a tectonic shift of habits and dreams called, in the curious vocabulary of social scientists, “ globalization ” . 今天我们正经历着一种世界范围的文化巨变的阵痛, 一种习俗与追求的结构性的变化; 这种变化 , 用社会学家们的奇特词汇来称呼, 就叫做 “ 全球化 ” 。Whatever their backgrounds or agendas, these critics are convinced that Western often equated with American influences will flatten every cultural crease, producing, as one observer terms it, one big “ McWorld ” . 不管其背景或纲领如何, 这些对全球化持批评态度的人都相信, 西方的影响 经常等同于美国的影响 会使所有不同的文化都丧失其独特性, 从而产生出一种就像一位观察家所说的“ 麦当劳世界 ” 。But I also discovered that cultures are as resourceful, resilient, and unpredictable as the people who compose them. 而我同时也发现, 文化 , 就像创造文化的民族一样, 善于随机应变/ 具有应变能力, 富有弹性, 而且不可预测。It s really hard to be original these days, so the easiest way to come up with new stuff is to mix things that already exist. 如今想要创新极为困难, 因此最容易的办法就是把现存的东西糅合在一起, 弄出个新玩意来。The Cosmopolitan, plunging necklines and all, is read by 260,000 Chinese women every month. (Para. 20) 每个月 , 有 26 万中国女性在阅读(美国的 )时尚杂志 , 里面有那些开领低胸服装的画页和其他内容。The lights went out, and for a moment the only sound in the darkness was the whirring of an expensive camera on auto-rewind. (Para. 27) 灯光熄灭了, 有那么一阵子, 黑暗中所能听到的只有一部昂贵的相机自动倒片时发出的声音。They received a lot from local cultures, but they also kept their own identity. (Para. 38) 精选学习资料 - - - - - - - - - 名师归纳总结 - - - - - - -第 6 页，共 16 页他们从当地的文化中汲取了很多东西, 但也保留了他们自己的本色。Linking is humanity s natural impulse, its common destiny. (Para. 40) 相互联系是人类自然的欲望, 是人类共同的命运。They are the powerful cords of the heart. (Para. 40) 这些联系是连接人们心灵的强有力的纽带。Lesson four Vocabulary 1. Stage : the theater, drama, or acting as a profession 2. Reputable: in a good repute; having a good reputation; well-thought-of; respectable 3. Phantom: ghostly image or figure; ghost 4. Angel: a messenger of God; a person regarded as being as beautiful, good, innocent, etc. as an angel, esp. Said of women or children. 5. Draught: a current of air in a room 6. Art: 1 ) ability, skill or application of a skill; 2) (pl) sly, cunning tricks fine skill or aptitude in creating or expressing what is beautiful, sep. in visual form 7. Credit: praise; approval for an act; ability or a quality 8. Proceeds: (pl) the money or profit derived from a sale, business venture, etc. 9. To induce : (fml) to cause a particular physical condition 10. To nose: to look closely and inquisitively 11. Trance : a state in which you behave as if you were asleep but are still able to hear and understand what is said to you, similar to the unconscious state. 12. Nominally: in name only Paraphrase 1. Pianos and models, Paris, Vienna and Berlin, masters and mistresses, are not needed by a writer. (Para. 1) Unlike a pianist or a painter who must have a piano or hire models, or visit famous cities like Paris, Vienna and Berlin, or be taught by masters and mistresses, a writer does not need all this. 2. She would have plucked the heart out of my writing. (Para. 3) Those conventional attitudes and beliefs (represented by the Angel) would have taken away the essence / soul of my writing. 3. Thus, whenever I felt the shadow of her wing or the radiance of her halo upon my page, I took up the inkpot and flung it at her. (Para. 3) Thus, whenever I felt the influence of traditional Victorian values and attitudes (about gender roles) on my writing, I fought back with all my power. 4. For though men sensibly allow themselves great freedom in these respects, I doubt that they realize or can control the extreme severity with which they condemn such freedom in women. (Para. 5) This is because, even though men readily allow themselves full freedom in speaking or writing about such as the body and passions, I don t think they realize how severely they condemn, or can control their extremely severe condemnation of, such freedom in women. 精选学习资料 - - - - - - - - - 名师归纳总结 - - - - - - -第 7 页，共 16 页5. Indeed it will be a long time still, I think, before a woman can sit down to write a book without finding a phantom to be slain, a rock to be dashed against. (Para. 6) No doubt, it will still take a long time, as I believe, before women are finally able to enjoy the freedom of writing without having to fight those conventional values, beliefs and prejudices that are unfavorable to them. 6. Even when the path is nominally open when there is nothing to prevent a woman from being a doctor, a lawyer, a civil servant there are many phantoms and obstacles, as I believe, looming in her way. (Para. 7) Even though the path is now open to women in name only, when they have the freedom to choose to be a doctor, a lawyer, a civil servant, I believe that there still exist many false ideas and obstacles to impede a woman s progress. 7. You have won rooms of your own in the house hitherto exclusively owned by men. (Para. 7) By fighting against the Angel in the House and through your painstaking efforts, you have gained a position and some freedom in a society which has so far been dominated by men. Translation: A. Phrases 1. Regulating my steps 指导我向前走2. The family purse 家庭财力 /经济3. Caught her by the throat 扼住她的喉咙4. In the depths of our unconscious being 在无意识的最深层5. To speak without the figure 不用修辞手段、直截了当地说6. The extreme conventionality of the other sex 男性极端的因循守旧7. Upon what terms 以什么为条件/在什么样的条件下B. Sentences 1. It was she who used to come between me and my paper when I was writing reviews. 就是她，在我写评论时，总是在我和我的写作之间制造麻烦。2. I now record the one act for which I take some credit to myself, though the credit rightly belongs to some excellent ancestors of mine who left me a certain sum of moneyshall we say five hundred pounds a yearso that it was not necessary for me to depend solely on charm for my living. 下面我要说说多少是我自己决定做的一件事情，当然做此事的功劳主要还应归功于我的了不起的祖先，是他们给我留下了一笔财产比如说每年五百英镑吧这样我就不必完全靠女人的魅力去谋生了。3. I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill. 我相信，只有妇女在人类知识所设计的全部艺术和专业领域中用创造形式表达自己的情感后，她们才能知道什么是妇女。4. He wants to see the same facesso that nothing may disturb or disquiet the mysterious nosings about, feelings around, darts, dashes and sudden discoveries of that very shy and illusive spirit, the imagination. 他希望在他写作时，他每天见的人， 读的书， 做的事都是相同的，这样任何事物都不会打破他生活的幻想， 也不会搅乱他的四处探求以及对那令人难以捉摸的东西想象力的突然发现。精选学习资料 - - - - - - - - - 名师归纳总结 - - - - - - -第 8 页，共 16 页5. Be that as it may, I want you to imagine me writing a novel in a state of trance. 尽管如此，我请你想象我在迷睡的状态中写小说。6. The consciousness of what men will say of a woman who speaks the truth about her passions had roused her from her artist s state of unconsciousness. 她意识到男人们会如何议论一个敢讲有关激情真话的女人，这使她从艺术家的无意识状态中惊醒了。7. Inwardly, I think, the case is very different; she has still many ghosts to fight, many prejudices to overcome. 从内心精神方面看，情况颇为不同。 妇女还要与许多鬼怪展开斗争，还有许多偏见需要去克服。8. To discuss and define them is I think of great value and importance; for thus only can the labor be shared, the difficulties be solved. 议论和界定这些障碍是十分重要的，因为只有如此我们才能共同努力克服困难。9. Those aims cannot be taken for granted; they must be perpetually questioned and examined. 那些目的是什么，对这个问题我们不能想当然，而要不断地提出疑问和进行审视。Lesson 5 Vocabulary 1. Month of Sundays : (colloq) a long time 2. To submit: to offer as an opinion; to suggest; to propose 3. Flight: the action of fleeing or running away from (Here means the narrator suddenly stopped.) 4. In the swim: conforming to the current fashions, or active in the main current of affairs 5. Pin-up: (American colloquialism) designating a girl whose sexual attractiveness makes her a subject for the kind of pictures often pinned up on walls 6. Carriage: the world applies to posture, specifically stresses the physical aspects of a persons bearing, e.g. an erect carriage 7. Keen: (American slang) good, fine, excellent, etc., a general term of approval 8. To mince: to lessen the force of; to weaken, as by euphemism 9. Kick: ( American colloquialism or slang) a pleasure 10. To deposit : (formal and humorous) to put, lay or set down 11. Brief: a concise statement of the main points of a law case, usu. field by counsel for the information of the court 12. Nuts: (American slang) an exclamation of disgust, scorn, disappointment, refusal, etc. 13. Let-up: stopping; relaxing 14. Well-heeled: (American slang) rich, prosperous Paragraph 1. Fads, I submit, are the very negation of reason. (Para. 5) Engaging in activities or interests that are popular for a short time, I suppose, shows a complete lack of sensible judgment. 2. One afternoon I found Petey lying on his bed with an expression of such distress on his face that I immediately diagnosed appendicitis. (Para. 6) 精选学习资料 - - - - - - - - - 名师归纳总结 - - - - - - -第 9 页，共 16 页One afternoon I saw Petey lying on his bed looking very much miserable and depressed, and I at once discovered that he was suffering from appendicitis. 3. My brain, that precision instrument, slipped into high gear. (Para. 20) My brain, which was like a precision instrument, quickly started working at high speed. 4. She was, to be sure, a girl who excited emotions, but I was not one to let my heart rule my head. I wanted Polly for a shrewdly calculated, entirely cerebral reason. (Para. 23) Of course, she was beautiful and attractive enough to arouse the desires and passions of men, but I certainly would never have my senses dominated by my feelings or emotions. I wanted to have Polly as my wife for a cleverly considered, thoroughly unemotional reason. 5. She was not yet of pin-up proportions, but I felt sure that time would supply the lack. (Para. 25) She was not yet fully developed like those attractive pin-up girls, but I felt sure that, given time, she would fill up and become just as glamorous. 6. In fact, she veered in the opposite direction. (Para. 27)Actually, she went in the opposite direction she was rather stupid. 7. If you were out of the picture, the field would be open. (Para. 34) If you re no longer having a romantic relationship with her, others would be free to compete for her love. 8. Back and forth his head swiveled, desire waxing, resolution waning. (Para. 50) Back and forth he kept turning his head round, and each time he did so, his desire grew stronger and his resolution became weaker. 9. This loomed as a project of no small dimensions, and at first I was tempted to give her back to Petey. (Para. 61) The task of teaching Polly to think appeared to be so difficult and demanding that I, for a while, even thought of giving the girl back to Petey. 10. There is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear. (Para. 115) This is indeed too much for any human being to bear. Translation: A. Phrases 1. the acme of mindlessness (Para. 5) 愚蠢到了极点2. a horrified whisper (Para. 46) 惊愕地失声叫出来3. a torn man (Para. 50) 一个不知所措、左右为难的人4. to set his jaw resolutely (Para. 50) 挺着下巴，表示坚定不移5. to qualify the generalization (Para. 73) 对某种一般的陈述进行限定6. a logic-proof head (Para. 97) (这女孩儿的 )脑袋是逻辑进不去的；(这女孩儿的 )对逻辑一窍不通7. to knit her creamy brow in concentration (Para. 118) ( 她)紧锁眉头，聚精会神（进行思考) 8. a glimmer of intelligence (Para. 118) 一丝智慧的闪光9. to make a logician out of Polly (Para. 124) 把波莉培养成逻辑学家10. an immense effort of will (Para. 153) 强大的意志力B. Sentences 1. Charles Lamb, as merry and enterprising a fellow as you will meet in a month of Sundays, j unfettered the informal essay with his memorable Old China and Dreams Children.(Para. 1) 精选学习资料 - - - - - - - - - 名师归纳总结 - - - - - - -第 10 页，共 16 页像查尔斯 兰姆这样快乐和富有创新精神的人物并不多见，他写了 古瓷 和梦中的孩子两篇文章，这两篇文章可以说解放了散文。2. Read, then, the following essay which undertakes to demonstrate that logic, far from being a dry, pedantic discipline, is a living, breathing thing, full of beauty, passion, and trauma. (Para. 3) 那么，就读读下面这篇文章吧，它将想我们展示逻辑并不是一门枯燥乏味、迂腐不堪的学科；恰恰相反，逻辑是一个活生生的事物，充满美丽、激情和心灵的创伤。3. My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemists scales, as penetrating i a scalpel. (Para. 4) 我的头脑和发电机一样强大，和药剂师的天平一样精确，和手术刀一样锐利。4. She had an erectness of carriage, an ease of bearing, a poise that clearly indicated the best of breeding. (Para. 26) 她亭亭玉立、体态优雅，这一切都表明她出身高贵。5. I threw open the suitcase and revealed the huge, hairy, gamy object. (Para. 41) 我一下子打开了手提箱，露出气味刺鼻的一团毛乎乎的东西。6. . you would go far to find another so agreeable. (Para. 63) 这么可爱的人可不容易找。7. Still, I am nothing if not persistent. (Para. 79) 我要是意志不坚定，我就不是我了。8. I frowned, but plunged ahead. (Para. 88) 我皱了一下眉头，但鼓足勇气继续往下讲。9. Maybe somewhere in the extinct crater of her mind, a few embers still smoldered. (Para. 98) 也许，在她死火山般的脑袋里，还有一点余火仍在闪烁冒烟。10. There, I thought, folding my arms, that ought to do it. (Para. 136) 这回波莉该动心了（应该能达到我的目的了），我双臂交叉在胸前，想道。Lesson 9 Vocabulary 1. Knoll: a hillock 2.Anvil:an iron or steel block on which metal ob5 eets are hammered into shape.Here the word “ anvil” is used metaphorically 3. To writhe: to twist and turn the body as in agony 4. Infirm: weak or ill esp because one is old 5. Headwaters: the beginning of a large stream or river 6.Fork:the point where a river is divided into two or more branches,or where branches join to form a river 7.Pilgrimage:a Journey made by a pilgrim,esp.to a shrine or holy place;any long journey to a place of historical interest 8. To engende r: to bring into being ； to bring about ；to produce 9. To consummate : to make complete, perfect 10. Beadwork: decorative work in beads 11. Warlord: a military leader, esp. an unofficial one fighting against a government or king 12. To hie: (old use) to make yourself hurry. or go quickly 精选学习资料 - - - - - - - - - 名师归纳总结 - - - - - - -第 11 页，共 16 页Paragraph 1. Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think,is where Creation was begun. The landscape makes your imagination vivid and lifelike, and you believe that the creation of the whole universe was begun right here. 2. But warfare for the Kiowas was preeminently a matter of disposition rather than of survival, and they never understood the grim,unrelenting advance of the U.S. Cavalry. The Kiowas often fought just because they were good warriors, because they fought out of habit, character, nature, not because they needed extra lands or material gains for the sake of surviving and thriving. And they could not understand why the U.S. Cavalry never gave up pushing forward even when they had won a battle. 3. My grandmother was spared the humiliation of those high gray walls by eight or ten years. Luckily, my grandmother did not suffer the humiliation of being put into a closure for holding animals, for She was born eight or ten years after the event. 4. It was a long journey toward dawn, and it led to a golden age. They moved toward the east, where the sun rises, and also toward the beginning of a new culture, which led to the treatest moment of their history. 5. They acquired horses, and their ancient nomadic spirit was suddenly free of the ground. Now they got horses. Riding on horseback, instead of walking on football, gave them this new freedom of movement, thus completely liberating their ancient nomadic spirit. 6. From one point of view, their migration was the fruits of an old prophecy, for indeed they emerged from a sunless world. In a sense, their migration confirmed the ancient myth that they entered the world from a hollow log,for they did emerge from the sunless world of the mountains. 7. The Kiowas reckoned their stature by the distance they could see, and they were bent and blind in the wilderness. Their stature was measured by the distance they could see. Yet, because of the dense forests, they could not see very far, and they could hardly stand straight. 8. Clusters of trees and animals grazing far in the distance cause the vision to reach away and wonder to build upon the mind. The earth unfolds and the limit of the land is far in the distance, where there are clusters of trees and animals eating grass.This landscape makes one see far and broadens ones horizon. 9. Not yet would they veer southward to the caldron of the land that lay below;they must wean their blood from the northern winter and hold the mountains a while longer in their view. They would not yet change the direction southward to the land lying below which was like a large kettle. First, they must give their bodies some time to get used to the plains. Secondly, they did not wants to lose sight of the mountains so soon. 10. I was never sure that I had the right to hear, so exclusive were they of all merely custom and company. I was not sure that I had any right to overhear her praying, which did not follow any customary way of praying, add which I guess she did not want anyone else to hear. 11. Transported so in the dancing light among the shadows of her room she seemed beyond the reach of time.But that was illusion; I think I knew then that I should not see her again. In this way she was entranced in the dancing light among the shadows of her room, and she 精选学习资料 - - - - - - - - - 名师归纳总结 - - - - - - -第 12 页，共 16 页seemed to be timeless(what she represented would last forever). 12. The women might indulge themselves; gossip was at once the mark and compensation of their servitude. On these special occasions, women might make loud and elaborate jokes and talk among themselves. Their gossip revealed their position as servants of men and also a reward for their servitude. Translation: A. Phrases 1.a single knoll rises out of the plain 一座孤零零的小山丘矗立在平原上2.popping up like corn to sting the flesh像爆米花一样冷不防的蹦起来叮人3.to lose the sense of proportion 失去平时的比例感4.a matter of disposition 出于本性，出于习惯5.positively classified 被明确的规划6.the object and symbol of their worship 他们崇拜的对象和标志7.the top of the world 世界上最好的地方8.the sense of confinement 禁锢之感9.the boy was struck dumb 突然间男孩子变哑了10.forbidden without cause 无缘无故地被禁止了11.a lot of coming and going 许多人来来往往12.made of lean and leather 瘦得皮包骨头B. Sentences 1. All things in the plain are isolate; there is no confusion of object in the eyes, but one hill or one tree or one man. 平原上的所有东西都是孤立的你的眼睛不会看到让你混淆不清的物体只是一座山或者一棵树或又是一个人。2. According to their origin myth, they entered the world through a hollow log. 依据他们起源的神话传说他们是通过一根空心圆木来到这个世界上的。3. But, beautiful as it is, one might have the sense of confinement there. 但是尽管它如此之美人们在那里仍然有禁锢之感。4. The skyline in all directions is close at hand, the high wall of the woods and deep cleavages of shade. 四面八方的天际线近在伸手可及的地方这天际线是树林周围的高墙和阴暗幽深的裂缝。5. In July the inland slope of the Rockies is luxuriant with flax and buckwheat, stonecrop and larkspur. 七月落基山脉内陆的斜坡上由于长满了亚麻、荞麦、景天和翠雀等植物而显得郁郁葱葱枝繁叶茂。6. Sweet clover takes hold of the hills and bends upon itself to cover and seal the soil. 苜蓿植物占据了所有山丘当它们低垂的时候就会覆盖密封住土壤。7. When the Kiowas came to the land of the Crows, they could see the dark lees of the hills at dawn across the Bighorn River, the profusion of light on the grain shelves, the oldest deity ranging after the solstices. 当克尔瓦人来到克罗人的土地时他们可以隔着比格好恩河看到黎明中的山脉的背阴处照在层层谷地上的充足的光线和在夏至后出现的最古老的神像。精选学习资料 - - - - - - - - - 名师归纳总结 - - - - - - -第 13 页，共 16 页8. At the top of a ridge I caught sight of Devil s Tower upthrust against the gray sky as if in the birth of time the core of the earth had broken through its crust and the motion of the world was begun. 在山脊的顶端我看到了直耸入灰色云霄的魔鬼塔似乎自打有了时间的那一瞬间地核裂出了地壳世界的运动从此开始。9. My line of vision was such that the creature filled the moon like a fossil. 从我的视野望去那只蟋蟀似乎像块化石一样镶嵌在满月之中。10. It had gone there, I through, to live and die, for there of all places, was its small definition made whole and eternal. 我想那蟋蟀去了哪里,生也好 ,死也好 ,因为只有那个地方才能让他渺小价值变的完整和永恒。Lesson 10 Vocabulary 1Shade: a particular kind of red, green, blue. Etc. (degree or depth)of color 2. Capital: any source of benefit 3. Spoil: sth. taken by force in war 4. Agenda: program of things to be done 5. To register : to show as by facial expression 6. Hardening of outlook: general attitude to life and the world becoming more strict and determined and less sympathetic 7. to compromise: to weaken or give up (one s principles，ideals，etc) as for reasons of expediency 8Geopolitical situation: the physical location of certain states, their access to and from the sea, control over sea and land transportation routes and the availability of natural resources. 9. Projected: to calculate the size, amount ，or rate of sth as it will be in the future ，using the information one has 10. Currency : any other commodity used as a medium of exchange Paragraph: 1. We still remember that assassinated world as idyllic, secure ., we will speak of it in the reverent tones reserved for the dead. In our memory , the pre-September 11 world was peaceful ,happy and safe (overlooking the fact that this was not the case) and we will talk about those days with a feeling of deep respect and love which can only be found in talking about dead people. 2. .the spoils of war include some of our most cherished values and liberties. In order to win the way, we might have to give up some of the basic values and liberties we treasure most. This might be the cost we have to pay. 3. who are attempting to colonize the future with their own repressive agenda? They are planning to carry out the plan of expanding the power of law enforcement agencies at home and of striking at the “ axis of evil ” abroad so as to extend American domination into areas originally beyond American reach ,such as Central Asia .Hence ,the colonization of the future . 4. which assumes the public is thinking in red, white and blue, when actually the spectrum of 精选学习资料 - - - - - - - - - 名师归纳总结 - - - - - - -第 14 页，共 16 页emotions, ideas and opinions is, like America itself, multihued. Which takes for granted that people think in a simple and uniform way while actually the feelings, thoughts and views of the American people are as varied as America itself? 5. We too are mired near the bottom of Maslow s pyramid, struggling to regain our lost sense of safety and security. The terrorist attacks put us at the bottom of the hierarchy of human needs, trying hard to reestablish our confidence in physical safety, the lowest type of safety. 6. it is something we associate with repressive regimes, not with participatory democracies. We are used to thinking that Western democracies practice rule of law and individual rights and freedom are protected by law. Violation of individual rights and suppression of dissenting voices can only be found in repressive regimes. 7. There was a relaxing of the rampant materialism, along with its ugly stepsisters isolation and compulsion, that has been the undoing of community in this country. People began to put less emphasis on the pursuit of wealth and possession of worldly goods. And the other two dangerous symptoms that went with materialism, that is physical separation from others and irrational behavior as a result of impulse also became less serious .Materialism, together with the accompanying symptoms of separation and compulsion, had been the cause of the ruin of community in this country. 8. discourages national introspection at a time when it would be most valuable. At a time when it is highly important for Americans to look into ourselves and ask ourselves why “ they hate us” , this concept directs our attention and thinking away from such analysis.9. history is a gallery of unspeakable crimes. History records many crimes committed by human beings which are so horrible that they defy description. 10. We tend these images like poisonous flowers in a nightmare garden. In spite of the fact that these images are horrible images, images of large-scale atrocity, we still take care to keep alive these images. Translation 1. The airspace over Yankee Stadium is closed, a line of snipers positioned on the stadium rooftop.纽约扬基体育场上空的空域关闭，禁止飞机通过。 在体育场的屋顶上，部署了一排狙击手。2. The vice-presidents safekeepers whisk him from place to place, just as his arch-nemesis Osama bin Laden is presumably moved from cave to cave halfway across the world. 副总统的保卫人员匆匆地把他从一个地方转移到另外一个地方能够，就像他那难以对付的死敌奥斯马，本拉登可能在世界另一端从一个山洞转移到另一个山洞一样。3. We watch wistfully as the pre-9/11 world drifts away on its raft of memory, cast in Technicolor shades of nostalgia. 带着惆怅的心情，我们目送记忆的小筏载着9.11 前的世界，在一种怀旧的黯淡色彩中漂流而去。4. Seeking solace, the country drapes itself in the America flag like a child in a superhero cape who plays at being invincible. 为了寻找安慰， 整个国家都用国旗裹装起来，就像一个小孩披上超人的斗篷，扮演一个无敌英雄。5. There are few places I the country where the Stars and Stripes has not found a purchase. 精选学习资料 - - - - - - - - - 名师归纳总结 - - - - - - -第 15 页，共 16 页没有什么地方看不到星条旗。6. But many of us define our personal safety and our national character by the very civil liberties that are being compromised in the name of state security. 但我们中许多人是用这些个人权利来定义个人安全和民族性的。7. Each time it seems the crisis must generate a new paradigm in which such an atrocity will never be allowed to happen againand yet it does happen again . 每次，危及似乎都肯定会产生一种新的模式，使这种暴行永远不会再发生然而暴行又一次发生了。8. “A country is only as strong as the people who make it up and the country turns into what the people want it to become, ” James Baldwin wrote. “ We made the world we re living in and we have to make it over. ”“ 组成这个国家的人民有多强大，这个国家就多强大；人民希望国家如何发展，国家就会如何发展， ” 詹姆斯。鲍德温写道。“ 我们使我们居住的世界成了这个样子，我们有必要重造这个世界。 ”9. He and his fellow passengers did not let what must have been abject fear prevent them from actingthat is the true definition of courage. 他和飞机上的其他乘客并没有受卑劣的恐惧心理所左右而不敢行动这就是勇气的真正的含义。10. It s a terrible irony that for a short time, while the condemned jet was aloft, the ideal of American democracy also reached its apex. 当这架注定要摔下来的飞机还在高空飞翔时，恰恰就在这短暂的时间里，美国的民主理想升至顶峰。两者结合在一起真是一种可怕的讽刺。精选学习资料 - - - - - - - - - 名师归纳总结 - - - - - - -第 16 页，共 16 页